473

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century 5th century 6th century
Decades:	450s 460s 470s 480s 490s
Years:	470 471 472 473 474 475 476

473 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	473 CDLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1226
Assyrian calendar	5223
Balinese saka calendar	394–395
Bengali calendar	−120
Berber calendar	1423
Buddhist calendar	1017
Burmese calendar	−165
Byzantine calendar	5981–5982
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 3170 or 2963     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3171 or 2964
Coptic calendar	189–190
Discordian calendar	1639
Ethiopian calendar	465–466
Hebrew calendar	4233–4234
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	529–530
- Shaka Samvat	394–395
- Kali Yuga	3573–3574
Holocene calendar	10473
Iranian calendar	149 BP – 148 BP
Islamic calendar	154 BH – 153 BH
Javanese calendar	358–359
Julian calendar	473 CDLXXIII
Korean calendar	2806
Minguo calendar	1439 before ROC 民前1439年
Nanakshahi calendar	−995
Seleucid era	784/785 AG
Thai solar calendar	1015–1016
Tibetan calendar	阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 599 or 218 or −554     — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 600 or 219 or −553

Solidus of Emperor Glycerius

Year 473 (CDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Leo without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1226 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 473 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• March 3 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Emperor Leo I refuses to recognize him, and chooses Julius Nepos as candidate to the Western throne.
• October 25 – Leo I grants his grandson Leo II, age 6, the title of Caesar (approximate date).

Balkans

• Theodoric Strabo signs a peace treaty with Leo I, and according to the terms the Goths are paid with an annual tribute of 2,000 pounds of gold. Leo gives him an independent state in Thrace and he obtains the rank of magister militum.
• The Ostrogoths leave Pannonia, and migrate to Macedonia and Moesia, from whence they ravage the Balkans.

Europe

• King Euric orders the invasion of Italy, but is defeated by Glycerius. The Visigoths withdraw to Gaul, and conquer the cities of Arles and Marseille.
• Gundobad returns to Burgundy, where his father Gondioc has died, and becomes king of the Burgundians.

Births

• Xiao Zhaoye, Chinese emperor of Southern Qi (known as the Prince of Yulin) (d. 494)
• Kavad I, king (shah) of the Sasanian Empire from 488 to 531, with an interruption of two years

Deaths

• Euthymius the Great, abbot and bishop (b. 377)
• Gondioc, king of Burgundy (approximate date)